第十五周 段落大意题-【名师指津】2023高考英语一轮复习阅读完形天天练（新题型）

名师指津 第十五周 段落大意题 1 段落大意题，主要考查学生对段落的总结归纳能力。常见的提问方式有： 名师指津 What is paragraph…mainly about？ (2022年新高考Ⅰ卷；2020年全国Ⅰ卷；2019年全国Ⅰ卷；2017年全国Ⅱ卷) What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about…？ (2021年全国乙卷) What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about? (2020年全国Ⅲ卷) What is the main idea of Paragraph 1？ (2012年全国卷) 名师指津 解答该类题的主要方法是找主题句(寻找主题句的方法请见第五周阅读微技能)，有的文章主题句在段首或段尾，这类文章一般段内层次较为分明，通常是先分后总或先总后分的结构。当然，也可能没有主题句，这时需根据本段内容去归纳。 名师指津 ［典型例题1］(2022年新高考Ⅰ卷·34) The team showed that this change in bite was connected with the development of agriculture in the Neolithic period. Food became easier to chew at this point. The jawbone didn’t have to do as much work and so didn’t grow to be so large. Analyses of a language database also confirmed that there was a global change in the sound of world languages after the Neolithic age, with the use of “f” and “v” increasing remarkably during the last few thousand years. These sounds are still not found in the languages of many hunter-gatherer people today. 名师指津 A. Supporting evidence for the research results. B. Potential application of the research findings. C. A further explanation of the research methods. D. A reasonable doubt about the research process. ◇ What is paragraph 5 mainly about? 名师指津 名师指津 点拨：前一段提到，研究团队指出这种咬合变化与新石器时代农业的发展有关。第五段主要讲了，语言数据库的分析也“证实(confirmed)”，自新石器时代起，世界各种语言的发音变化是全球性的，在过去几千年里，“f”和“v”的使用显著增加。由此可见，第五段主要是为上文的研究结果提供证据，故选A项。 ［典型例题2］ (2020年全国Ⅲ卷·25) The creative team behind “Apes (猿)” used motion-capture (动作捕捉) technology to create digitalized animals, spending tens of millions of dollars on technology that records an actor’s performance and later processes it with computer graphics to create a final image (图像). In this case, one of a realistic-looking ape. 名师指津 ◇ What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about? 名师指津 A. The cost of making “Apes.”B. The creation of digitalized apes. C. The publicity about “Apes.”D. The performance of real apes. 名师指津 点拨：第一句句意为：“猿”背后的创意团队使用动物捕捉技术来建立数字化的动物，花费数千万美元在记录演员表演的技术上，随后用计算机图形进行处理